Short Courses

Short courses will be held on Wednesday, September 28 for an additional fee of $105 ($110 after August 30) each. Click here for registration information.

2016 ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop

8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

SC1: Writing Clinical Trial Simulators, Scott Berry, Berry Consultants; Anna McGlothin, Berry Consultants

SC2: Bayesian Biopharmaceutical Applications Using SASĀ®, Fang Chen, SAS Institute; Guanghan Liu, Merck

SC3: An Overview of Methods to Assess Data Integrity in Clinical Trials, Richard Zink, SAS Institute; Marc Buyse, IDDI; Paul Schuette, FDA

SC4: Statistical methods and software for multivariate meta-analysis, Haitao Chu, University of Minnesota; Yong Chen, University of Pennsylvania


1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

SC5: Introduction to Clinical Trial Optimization to Enable Better Decision Making, Alex Dmitrienko, Quintiles

SC6: Use of Biomarkers for Surrogacy and Personalized Treatment Selection, Tianxi Cai, Harvard School of Public Health; Layla Parast, RAND Corp.

SC7: Structured Benefit-Risk Evaluation and Emergent Issues, Weili He, Merck; Qi Jiang, Amgen; John Scott, CBER FDA

SC8: Design and Statistical Analysis of Biosimilars, Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University


***Short course descriptions are available in the online program.